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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 23/06/2026

After week of intense work and focus, I finished a heavy-lift round of revision on one of the two novels I have underway. 🎉 I rewarded myself with this photos-don't-do-it-justice handcrafted Japanese teacup. I wish you could see and feel the texture and craft, but this is the best I could do!

Opaque-glass teacup with tea in it resting on a wood floor.

Empty opaque-glass teacup resting on a dark counter, to bring out the bubbles in the glass.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 07/04/2026

A 🤩 weekend at Quai du Polar in Lyon, as it is every year!

View across a large room with tables covered in books and people shopping.

An ornate room with people seated on a dais with microphones and people filling the chairs in the foreground to listen.

View from overhead of a packed book-sales floor at a literary festival.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 30/03/2026

Oh yes. I am so very here good this film retrospective. 🙌

Poster advertising a film retrospective of Joe Dante’s work with a screen capture from the movie “Gremlins” in the background.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 02/01/2026

Les Monstrueuses at mudac in Lausanne is an exhibit of Kévin Germanier’s haute couture work using upcycled materials. Stunning and inspiring.

Dress “exploding” with multicolored plastic “feathers.”

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 01/01/2026

Captured along the lakefront and sharing along with my wishes for all the joy and wonder in 2026. #Suisse #LacLeman #Lausanne

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 23/12/2025

Civilizational high or low that we now have Haribo jewelry for sale in high-end department stores?

A glass case filled with necklaces, earring, bracelets, and watches that feature Haribo Gummi Bears.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 19/12/2025

My spouse performed a birthday miracle earlier this week: He found me an honest-to-goodness delicious US-style cake.

A red-velvet cake with cream-cheese frosting on a cutting board with a note in icing that reads “Happy birthday, Leslie.”

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 14/11/2025

Applause for this fierce Swiss graffito. Made me smile, anyway.

Cartoon decal affixed to a concrete wall featuring a red fish-like character with a Swiss-flag cross on his torso and different Swiss-knife components coming out of his head and hands.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 24/10/2025

We had some glorious autumn color these past couple of weeks. 🍂

A row of trimmed hedges with a leafy bush behind them and an overhanging tree to the right.

A stone wall with overhanging large-leafed vines.

Two rows of trees with an asphalt path between them covered in fallen leaves.

Broad grassy field with a row of puffy trees in the background, each with leaves of a different color.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 04/07/2025

Adore these acknowledgements (here in their entirety) that open FLOOD by Andrew Vachss. 🔥

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The ultimate poverty is to fail to acknowledge your debts. For the material in this book and others to come, I am indebted to many people, some as close as my blood, some forever to be my enemies. I will never forget any of them.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 13/05/2025

Look at these beauties at the Typewriter Museum here in Lausanne. Aren't they gorgeous? When I had to buy a new computer a few months back, I considered going typewriter-level old school for more than a minute there. I miss that sound. (And hey, no forced-AI nonsense!)

A wall of box-style shelves displaying typewriters.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 10/05/2025

Inauthentic glass would be what, exactly?

A wire shelf in a grocery store with stoppered bottles for sale advertised as "authentic glass."

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 19/01/2025

Fun to see Rachel Kushner at the Fondation Jan Michalski outside Lausanne last night!

Two women in conversation, seated on chairs on a stage.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 20/12/2024

My contribution to the holiday cheer. That’ll be all, folks.

A low table covered in a blanket with two lighted small holiday trees on top with tiny fuzzy ornaments.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 07/12/2024

I cannot possibly be the only person who, upon first glance, read this as "turd pizza."

A clapboard sign on an urban sidewalk that actually reads "tutù pizza." The accent over the U makes it look like a D.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 01/12/2024

Look at this gorgeous postcard I received from a beloved friend! 😍

A hand holding a postcard with a partially colored-in line drawing of a branch with leaves and flowers.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 16/11/2024

On my way home I saw these lamps of ceramic art (?) in a storefront window and decided you needed to see them.

Three ceramic sculptures lit from within on a ledge just inside a storefront window. The sculptures appear to be small gremlins or goblins.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 31/10/2024

For my Halloween contribution, how about this utterly frightening knobbly-to-skeletal permanent sculpture outside a hospital building here in town? Title: Transsubstantiation Sculptor: Maria Zsuzsa de Faykod

A concrete knobbly hand (or possibly foot?) sculpture on a low concrete pedestal with a bike rack in the background.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 25/10/2024

More kids playing in trees, please.

A low, shrubby tree with two small children in its branches, visible only for their bright coats.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 18/10/2024

Always like to get a bizarrely themed calendar for the year. I think this one counts.

Hand holding a sixteen-month calendar featuring a photo of a stuffed llama and the headline "Llama with No Drama."

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 06/10/2024

This book, people! My second read of spooky season surpassed even high expectations AND delivered the creeps in spades. Woke me up in the night even, unnerved. Highly, highly, HIGHLY recommended. @hildur.bsky.social, WOW. 😍

Cover of the novel The Night Guest by Hildur Knutsdottir, which has a wine glass with wine dribbling into it from above.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 04/10/2024

And while I'm at it, all starry-eyed about the authors I got to connect with at Festival America last weekend... ... here's me with the brilliant S. A. Cosby. 🤩 @blacktopkid.bsky.social

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 04/10/2024

I mean, how lucky am I to have gotten to meet and chat (IRL for once!) with THE Dan Chaon at the Festival American in Vincennes, France, last weekend? 🤩 @danchaon.bsky.social

A woman and a man standing in front of a building with a sign reading Festival America on it.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 03/10/2024

I am way too much a book omnivore to read only horror this month, but here's my first spooky-season read. 😍👻🕷️😍

Cover of The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman, showing a dark tunnel with the silhouette of a human figure toward the back.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 27/09/2024

Should we riff on what the classes here advertised involve?

A sign on a metal scaffolding that reads "shyness steals your life" and advertises "group classes for everybody" available at unshyness.com.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 18/09/2024

And the cafe with the dandelion, then asparagus, menu, now has its la chasse menu on proud display. The signs of the seasons right here, I tell you.

Sandwich board advertising a hunting-themed menu at a cafe.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #213,894!

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 13/09/2024

This art landed hard. Sorry for the poor photo, but I did my best. * "Everything # 4, 2004," by Adrian Piper

A framed oval mirror etched with the words "everything will be taken away."

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 06/09/2024

This feels social-media appropriate.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 31/08/2024

Can you tell how much fun I had getting to see the brilliant @naomialderman.bsky.social at le Livre sur le quai literary festival in Morges today? 🤩

Two women talking, one seated at a table and the other standing.

Two women seated at a table, talking, with a banner at left reading “le Livre sur le quai,”

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 30/08/2024

If this church in Montreal doesn't lend itself to a horror story somewhere, I'll be sorely disappointed. I mean, *look* at it.

An imposing stone church topped with a winged statue of the Christian Virgin Mary.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 28/08/2024

In case anyone (all 0 of you) wondered how this little experiment was going. 😕

A small succulent on a wooden table. Several leaves look dead and a central portion has shot up like a rocket.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 16/08/2024

I mean, who doesn't keep their hemlock on the shelf between the brandy and the gin, amirite?

Three earthenware jars on a wooden shelf labeled, from left to right, brandy, hemlock, and gin.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 09/08/2024

Hey, I know when to heed a warning, I sure do.

Handwritten sign in a flower bed that reads “if you steal my flowers, a curse will follow you for all your days!”

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 21/07/2024

All the rain we’ve had this year in my part of the world has made me quite the snail fan.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 07/07/2024

Never thought to wonder whether Switzerland had a steel drum band and yet. The things you learn.

Temporary tent with a group of people playing steel drums and xylophones underneath it and a banner in front promoting the band’s website: octopan.ch

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 06/07/2024

The triathletes leaving their bikes at the ready for tomorrow’s race. I’m in full crew and support mode this weekend. (Which means, thank goodness, no, I am *not* racing.)

A large soccer field with numbered racks where triathletes leave their bikes for pickup after the swim course.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 28/06/2024

I love that a cat appeared to have been living its best life here. (No, not my car.)

Car hood covered with feline paw prints.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 22/06/2024

Art installation on the water here in Lausanne, this one to remind us about the flora and fauna in the lake. And gosh, do I find it pretty, swaying with the wind and the water movement.

Large lake with floating clusters of branches and plants. Alps in the background.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 20/06/2024

Had to close the loop and post the finished project. Turns out, per the sign, it's a temporary sculpture called "Les Beaux Dimanches" comparing the human digestive system to urban wastewater systems. (At least, to disappoint some of the hypotheses posited here, it is indeed not The Wicker Man.)

Wooden sign in the foreground headed by "Les Beaux Dimanches." In the background, a large amorphous sculpture spouting water from the top.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 19/06/2024

Not sure why on a midmorning Wednesday we had a plethora of boats on the lake—much more likely seen on an evening or weekend—but I like it.

Large lake with sailboats in the foreground and alps in the background.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 07/06/2024

Thank you to Greece for another yoga retreat that did this human a lot of good.

Winding pedestrian path between houses with overhanging vines and flowers.

View from a boat over water with a rocky beach in the background.

View from on high of a long, curving beach with land and houses on the left and water on the right.

View over dry and rocky land and brush next to the ocean, with a small house or church in the background.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 01/06/2024

Now that’s a huge load of sandwiches, gotta say.

A red cargo truck driving down a street with the words “BLT Transports” written on the side in white ink.

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